Georgina Gledhill
@g-gledhill.bsky.social
Doing health policy and public affairs at Incisive Health | Enjoys thinking about women's health, UK politics and cold water swimming
📍SE London (via Manchester 🐝)
📍SE London (via Manchester 🐝)
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“Professional managerial class” - a phrase used by people who are just frankly in denial about their own lives and aspiration, let alone anyone else’s.
Professional Managerial Class okay American politics welcome we have imported you
September 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“Professional managerial class” - a phrase used by people who are just frankly in denial about their own lives and aspiration, let alone anyone else’s.
An especially thrilling time to be a) from the other side of Manchester and b) living in, and advocating for, South London
at long last, something nice for London and humiliation for our northern overlords, amirite
May 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An especially thrilling time to be a) from the other side of Manchester and b) living in, and advocating for, South London
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📣New Paper:19 months after the UK soft drinks industry levy (SDIL; sugar tax) was enforced we find a 7.5g weekly household sugar reduction from soft drinks. Weekly sugar reductions were highest in houses with lowest incomes(70g/week) / with children(56g/week).
📄: nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
📄: nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
Changes in household purchasing of soft drinks following the UK soft drinks industry levy by household income and composition: controlled interrupted time series analysis, March 2014 to November 2019
Background The WHO recommends taxes on sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) to improve population health. We examined changes in volume of and amount of sugar in purchases of soft drinks according to hous...
nutrition.bmj.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
📣New Paper:19 months after the UK soft drinks industry levy (SDIL; sugar tax) was enforced we find a 7.5g weekly household sugar reduction from soft drinks. Weekly sugar reductions were highest in houses with lowest incomes(70g/week) / with children(56g/week).
📄: nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
📄: nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Incisive Health is excited to be joining BlueSky in 2025. Get ready for all things #healthpolicy – UK 🇬🇧, EU 🇪🇺 and global 🌏
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Incisive Health is excited to be joining BlueSky in 2025. Get ready for all things #healthpolicy – UK 🇬🇧, EU 🇪🇺 and global 🌏
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Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it?
ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974
ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974
December 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it?
ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974
ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974
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On this note, we need better measures of prosperity and perceived living standards. GDP is increasingly meaningless in a world where US Big Tech and NovoNordisk/Ozempic can put rocket boosters under Irish & Danish GDP figures but cost of living complaints in both places have rarely been more notable
as we all know I don't believe "the economy" is real but there's something vaguely worrying in the air in western Europe, isn't there? all anecdotal but so many self employed friends having less work, friends searching for jobs and failing, friends watching their companies make redundancies...
December 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM
On this note, we need better measures of prosperity and perceived living standards. GDP is increasingly meaningless in a world where US Big Tech and NovoNordisk/Ozempic can put rocket boosters under Irish & Danish GDP figures but cost of living complaints in both places have rarely been more notable
It feels like this could be a new, and aptly timed, record…
December 21, 2024 at 7:53 PM
It feels like this could be a new, and aptly timed, record…
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A pet theory of mine is that you can trace the deterioration in political speeches to the point when they started to be written like shopping lists rather than in paragraphs.
December 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM
A pet theory of mine is that you can trace the deterioration in political speeches to the point when they started to be written like shopping lists rather than in paragraphs.
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In today's Nesta report "Nourishing Britain", Unit visiting scientist @dollyvantulleken.bsky.social and @henrydimbleby.bsky.social asked those at the heart of government what went wrong behind the scenes when they tried to act and what it takes to get it right.
www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri...
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www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri...
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Nourishing Britain: a political manual for improving the nation’s health
Henry Dimbleby and Dr Dolly van Tulleken draw on interviews with former prime ministers and other key figures to offer practical advice and insights on how today’s politicians can tackle the UK’s obes...
www.nesta.org.uk
November 25, 2024 at 2:21 PM
In today's Nesta report "Nourishing Britain", Unit visiting scientist @dollyvantulleken.bsky.social and @henrydimbleby.bsky.social asked those at the heart of government what went wrong behind the scenes when they tried to act and what it takes to get it right.
www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri...
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www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri...
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Read this over my morning coffee and it’s excellent. A must read for anyone interested in voting patterns (especially gender gaps) in the 2024 GE.
Excellent work @cerifowler.bsky.social @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @annasanders.bsky.social & Rosie Shorrocks 👏
Excellent work @cerifowler.bsky.social @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @annasanders.bsky.social & Rosie Shorrocks 👏
New from me, @annasanders.bsky.social , @profrosiecamp.bsky.social and Rosie Shorrocks: some first reflections on gender & the 2024 UK election @politicalquarterly.bsky.social . More to come from the same team too- watch this space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Read this over my morning coffee and it’s excellent. A must read for anyone interested in voting patterns (especially gender gaps) in the 2024 GE.
Excellent work @cerifowler.bsky.social @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @annasanders.bsky.social & Rosie Shorrocks 👏
Excellent work @cerifowler.bsky.social @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @annasanders.bsky.social & Rosie Shorrocks 👏
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The proportion of low-to-middle income women not working due to caring for children responsibilities has fallen dramatically in recent decade.
In 2022-23 7% of women in lower-income families said they weren't working due to childcare, down from 21% in 1996-97.
In 2022-23 7% of women in lower-income families said they weren't working due to childcare, down from 21% in 1996-97.
November 19, 2024 at 5:17 PM
The proportion of low-to-middle income women not working due to caring for children responsibilities has fallen dramatically in recent decade.
In 2022-23 7% of women in lower-income families said they weren't working due to childcare, down from 21% in 1996-97.
In 2022-23 7% of women in lower-income families said they weren't working due to childcare, down from 21% in 1996-97.